Comments on: More Threadless Research

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:33:44 +0000

I just posted another one of these, Threadless Numbers #3: What kind of t-shirts don’t get printed at Threadless? if anybody's interested.

By: Titi

Titi — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:47:39 +0000

very interesting !

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:38:14 +0000

My definition of ‘professional’ is more of a heuristic than anything else: if their Threadless profile links to their external designer portfolio website (or something similar or related, like their own t-shirt site), then I classified them as a ‘professional’. Thanks for asking for clarification! I think I mentioned that one time somewhere in the post, but I’ll go back and try to make it clearer And I definitely agree with you that my current classification isn’t satisfactory, but it’s a start.

By: Mingled

Mingled — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:54:53 +0000

It would be interesting to see how he defines ‘professional’. I’m a designer/editor by trade and have a small t-shirt site which I run as a hobby but it’s not my main source of income by a long stretch. Am I a professional then? I expect that a fair amount of the amateurs are involved in the creative industries to some degree. Basically, the line here is quite blurred in my opinion, but it’s good to see someone doing some real research into the online t-shirt industry.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:52:44 +0000

Yeah, quite inconclusive.. If I had had more time and less other final papers to worry about, I would have followed up on my initial research to get some firmer numbers. I have at least one more, and probably two, entries worth of data. I might just do one each Monday until I run out. Anyway, I’m glad you liked them and I’d be very interested in hearing your own thoughts on what I wrote.